HMS Research was a small ironclad warship, converted from a wooden-hulled sloop and intended as an experimental platform in which to try out new concepts...
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1859. HMS Research (1863) was an ironclad screw sloop built as HMS Trent but renamed in 1862 and launched in 1863. She was sold in 1884. HMS Research (1888)...
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published John Murray, 1869. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Wivern (ship, 1863). Ballard, G. A., Admiral (1980). The Black Battlefleet. Annapolis...
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HMS Scorpion was an ironclad turret ship built by John Laird Sons & Company, at Birkenhead, England. She was one of two sister ships secretly ordered...
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1837. HMS Tamar (1863) was an iron screw troop ship launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941. HMS Tamar (shore...
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a wood screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863. HMS Discovery (1874) was a wood screw storeship, formerly the civilian Bloodhound...
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in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1873 commissioning of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation...
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1903. HMS Enterprise was to have been a wooden screw sloop. She was laid down in 1861, renamed HMS Circassian in 1862 but cancelled in 1863. HMS Enterprise (1864)...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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recommissioned. In 1863 the Government acquired her for £4,000 when she was renamed HMS Sandfly and armed with two 12 pounder Armstrong guns. In 1863 she was principally...
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